From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263740AbUHGRUG (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 13:20:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263761AbUHGRUG (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 13:20:06 -0400 Received: from vsmtp4alice-fr.tin.it ([212.216.176.150]:13050 "EHLO vsmtp4.tin.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263740AbUHGRTv (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 13:19:51 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: Frediano Ziglio To: Joerg Schilling Cc: mj@ucw.cz, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200408071217.i77CHUKm006973@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200408071217.i77CHUKm006973@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1091899191.4254.19.camel@freddy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 19:19:51 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Il sab, 2004-08-07 alle 14:17, Joerg Schilling ha scritto: > >From: Martin Mares > > >> It seems that you are not really interested to understand how it works :-( > > >I am interested, but I life is too short to read the full docs of all existing > >OS's. Can you give me at least a pointer to the relevant section? > > I already did! ---> "man path_to_inst" > ... omissis ... Could we start again this thread in a less polemical way ?? >>From my point of view there are two problems: 1- linux device naming 2- linux cd-rom problems (real or not) 1- My experience with unices it's not so long however taking a HP-UX course I liked very much having tools to scan for new hardware and a unique device identification numbering however I don't understand why a single device should have many different devices based on behavior (like scd0/sg0, raw/not raw, video0/audio for a grabber and so on). A friend of mine (not a Linux guru but a simple user) simply said "why there are so many files in /dev ?" 2- since we all use cdrecord (and/or its library) to burn CDs under Linux if cdrecord do not works under Linux users (me too) thinks that Linux do not support well cd-burning. So scgcheck has to work. There are also some recent mail on LKML about cd-burning problems (with firewire and usb) so there are some problems... I experience "no error" errors too (so I can confirm it's a real problem). freddy77